Use certificates and encryption to secure communications for your Splunk software configuration

Splunk software comes with a set of default certificates and keys that demonstrate encryption. Splunk recommends deploying your own certificates and configuring them to secure communications. See About securing Splunk with SSL in this manual.

Audit your system regularly

Audit events contain information that shows you what changed in your Splunk configuration. It gives you the where and when, as well as the identity of the actor who implemented the change. Leveraging audit events provides better security and other benefits:

Audit your system regularly to monitor user and admin access, as well as other activities that could tip you off to unsafe practices or security breaches.

Keep an eye on activities within Splunk (such as searches or configuration changes). You can you can use this information for compliance reporting, troubleshooting, and attribution during incidence response.

Audit events are especially useful in distributed Splunk configurations for detecting configuration and access control changes across many Splunk Servers.To learn more, see Audit Splunk Enterprise activity in this manual.

Use the file system-based monitoring available out of the box on most Splunk-supported operating systems.For more information about monitoring, see Monitor Files and Directories in the Getting Data In Manual.

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